Monday, October 1, 2012

PEACE NEVER EXPLODES WAR DOES

Josephus claims that 1,100,000 people were killed during the siege,
of which a majority were Jewish, and that 97,000 were captured and
enslaved, including Simon bar Giora and John of Giscala.[4]

"The slaughter within was even more dreadful than the spectacle from
without. Men and women, old and young, insurgents and priests, those who
fought and those who entreated mercy, were hewn down in indiscriminate
carnage. The number of the slain exceeded that of the slayers. The
legionaries had to clamber over heaps of dead to carry on the work of
extermination."[5]

Preface

This book WAR IN A BOTTLE is about the supernatural peace of which Jesus frequently
spoke. “My peace I give to you not as this world gives.” (John 14:27; 16:33)
What’s so special about this peace since He made a point by emphasizing His
kind of peace? He made still a much stronger case when He said that in the
world we have tribulations and turmoil, but He had overcome this world. So how
did He overcome this world?

When the angels proclaimed the birth of Jesus
with words like, ‘Peace on Earth and good will toward man’ (Luke 2) and yet we
have no lasting peace than what sort of a peace did the angels proclaim?

Jesus stated in Matthew 5:9 “Blessed are the
peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God.” In Luke 13:20-21 Jesus
compared God’s kingdom to a leaven that causes expansion of the lump and in
turn the rising of the baked bread. The Son of God being the chief peacemaker
said that He is the ‘bread of life that came down from heaven.’ Therefore,
ought not the body of Christ be rather busy with that one particular peace
ingredient rather than with the supposed heavenly wars?

Apostle Paul spoke of God’s sons in Romans 8;
and that the entire creation longs for the appearance of the sons whom Jesus
named as being the peacemakers. The popular theology gives us the idea that
Lucifer rebelled against God and took with him one third of the angels
suggesting that wars and upheavals came to us from heaven, but this is not
clearly written in the Bible. Is it possible that the natural thinkers have
interpreted the supernatural through just the physical faculties of cognizance?
Wars on earth are quite frequent. Plots and intrigues need time and the
obscurity of darkness. Dethroning and overthrowing of monarchs we find on
earth, but can anyone plot in the realm of no darkness and of no time?
Therefore only a mind accustomed to these earthly dimensions would naturally
assume that heaven must go through the same?

In this book we will not even attempt to
reconcile theology with the Bible—for it would take too many books to write—but
rather attract our mind to logic, which is found in the heavenly peace.

Here is an example of my logic: if heaven
once experienced war or upheaval then what guarantee do we have that the same
heavenly sphere won’t succumb to it again? Therefore, what sort of a heaven are
we preparing ourselves for? Or, what quality of a faith we ought to have? If
the peace of which Jesus spoke is not of this world, but of His, then by
contrast with the physical earth, the spiritual realm must be completely
peaceful. In the same vain, our faith must not be self-produced, but rather be
God’s gift, just as the scripture confirms it to be so. No one can come to
Jesus unless it is the heavenly Father who draws him. (John 6:44) The faith in
Christ the Messiah brings wholeness. Faith comes by hearing, yet it comes, for
in 1st Corinthians 12:9 Apostle Paul declares that faith is indeed
God’s gift to us.

Finally. Peace heals and restores while war
divides and destroys............................................................................................................................................

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